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He might, for instance, resemble Lee Ross, who plays the militantly nonconformist Toni, buddy of Chris (Christian Bale), in Metroland , based on an early novel by Julian Barnes.
Movie --Metroland
If any couple could have synthesized the impulses to rove and stay put, it's this one, but Beaufoy throws in the towel at the point where the husbands and wives of A Walk on the Moon and Metroland are just getting warmed up.
Bale, a wonderfully sensitive actor who here looks like Watson with an Adam's apple, can only stare open-mouthed, helpless, knowing she's his destiny and not even much minding that it will take him back to Metroland.
By a not-so-strange coincidence, this conflict is prominent in lots of recent movies, among them A Walk on the Moon , Metroland , and Among Giants , which explore the natural impulse to settle down vs. the equally natural impulse to be wild and free--the yearning for permanence vs. the claustrophobic dread of monogamy.